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This website was down for the last three days. How is that not news worthy? If it is bananas.org's web host's fault, I can suggest another host. I pay $4 per month for my web host's service and my web site is almost never down.

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I am more curious what happened. As has already been stated, for what we pay to be here, we can't complain. I am overjoyed it's here for us to enjoy. Maybe a short thread explaining with an apology or something is in order, but I don't require it.

This website was down for the last three days. How is that not news worthy? If it is bananas.org's web host's fault, I can suggest another host. I pay $4 per month for my web host's service and my web site is almost never down.

Good question. ... I sent an email to the Domain owner/tech. I have not gotten a reply. The website & forum appears to be hosted from San Antonio, Tx and the registered owner is in Australia. ... Looking at the trace route now compared to a trace route 2 days ago, the forum server was off line or the virtual IP was shut down.

Don't know what happened but the server hosts multiple forums. I am also on AlbertaChickensEtc. forum and it went down at same time for almost as long. That sites moderator said the server said it was from overload.
Who knows, maybe hacked or "The Russians"

This website was down for the last three days. How is that not news worthy? If it is bananas.org's web host's fault, I can suggest another host. I pay $4 per month for my web host's service and my web site is almost never down.

I joined this site many years ago. I met the founder of the site, Mediahound, when I was down for a show I attended, The Tropical Plant Industry Exposition. I don't think Mediahound has any more to do with the site, (I think it's been sold), but I,too, wonder why it's down so much.

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I still own the site, I never sold it. I just don't have time lately to come and hang out and post, read all the posts, etc., like in years past.
The site earns next to nothing from the few google ads that are peppered around here and there, and with the costs to run it and store all the data, bandwidth etc, its a loss, but that's OK, as I did not start this project with money in mind.

Actually I did not realize it was down and as soon as I did (thanks to an email I received from a post on the Bananas.org Facebook page! ), I restarted the server.
I should setup some notifications to alert when the site goes down..
anyway, sorry about that, everyone!

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